Isbn: 9783163445758 - emerging technologies: consequences for economic growth, structural change, and employment. symposium 1981 (1 Ergebnisse)

Sprache: Deutsch Broschur gr. 8;; 480 Seiten; Bibliotheksstempel auf Rückseite Haupttitel - sonst wohlerhalten; Tabellen, Diagramme - This volume is the outcome of a conference on the economic consequences of emerging technologies which was held at the Institut für Weltwirtschaft in Kiel, June 24 - 26, 1981, in cooperation with the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry of the OECD under the patronage of the OECD Council. In planning the conference we were curious to learn whether the advanced countries could once again - as in previous times - expect technological breakthroughs to give vigorous impulses to economic prosperity and growth, thus helping them to shorten the phase of relative stagnation and high unemployment from which they have been suffering by now for almost a whole decade. Or, would these technologies have such negative employment effects and trigger such fundamental adjustments in industrial and regional output patterns that they would aggravate rather than alleviate the economic problems of the eighties? To help resolve these issues the conference in its four sessions focused on the role of technology in growth and employment dynamics, on the process of changing international technological leadership, on the impact of new technologies on the structure of economic activity, and on the rofe of governments and markets in promoting the creation and diffusion of new technologies. - - -. …